Continuity mistake: When Jake is serving the cream he uses his left hand, then right, then left again between shots.
Pacific Rim Uprising (2018)
Plot summary
Directed by: Steven S. DeKnight
Starring: Scott Eastwood, John Boyega, Adria Arjona, Tian Jing
It's 10 years after the events of the first film. Peace from the Kaiju attacks still prevails after the breach was closed. The story starts off with the son of Stacker Pentecost from the first movie as Jake, attempting to salvage parts from Jaeger junk yards to sell on the black market. The part he's attempting to get while betraying the team he's with is stolen by Amara, a young girl building her own miniature Jaeger. Jake tracks her down but before much else happens he's tracked there by the police and they both have to make a get away in her newly powered up "Scrapper" Jaeger.
Ultimately they are apprehended, and are given the ultimatum to join the Jaeger program or got to prison. Jake is made an instructor for the new recruits.
While on assignment, Jake and his reluctant co-pilot of Gypsy Avenger encounter a rogue Jaeger and are unable to defeat it. However they track it to an island where they engage it again to discover that it's being powered not by human pilots, but a Kaiju brain.
This leads to the discovery of corruption in the company creating Jaeger drones where it's revealed that Dr. Newton from the previous film has been brain washed by the Kaiju after drifting with the brain of one in the last film. And he's seeded a plan deep in getting the Drones to reopen the breach, allowing the Kaiju back onto Earth. They immediately make a B-line to Mount Fuji in Japan to cause a chain reaction to detonate the Ring of Fire. Racing against the clock, Jake leads the new recruits in supped up Jaegers to Japan to face off against these monsters to save the world.
More mistakes in Pacific Rim Uprising
Jake Pentecost: Fire everything you've got.
Question: The opening scene, as well as several others, shows Kaiju skeletons lying on the beach. In the first film, Kaiju bone power was $500 an ounce, used as a aphrodisiac. If that is the case, why is there 10s of millions of dollars just lying on the beach deteriorating?
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Answer: The film never addresses this, and in fact the kaiju black market is never even mentioned. Any answer would be speculation. You could argue that it has been a decade since the events of the previous film and in that time the kaiju black market could have collapsed for any number of reasons (lack of demand, procurement costs, government regulation, etc). We must also consider that the writers were not concerned with consistency between this film and the previous film. Since Hannibal Chau does not appear in this film, nor is he mentioned, the idea of a lucrative kaiju black market appears to have been dropped. Since this film focuses instead on a jaeger black market, it might have been a conscious decision by the film-makers to ignore Hannibal Chau in this film to avoid confusing new viewers who didn't see the original film.
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